State Sen. Wiener introduced new legislation on Monday to make PG&E a publicly owned utility. The bill would employ eminent domain to seize control, forcing PG&E shareholders to sell their shares to the state of California. We’ll talk to Wiener about his proposed plan, which is already drawing protests from PG&E’s largest union, and about what’s next after the Senate last week failed to pass his housing bill, SB50, for the third time.
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